A damaged silver GMC minivan sits Wednesday, April 11, 2018 on the west-side curb of the 2250 block of 35th Avenue in Oakland, California. The GMC was one of several vehicles struck during a Tuesday night injury collision.

OAKLAND — A four-time felon accused of fleeing the scene of a high-speed collision that killed a 9-year-old girl last week faces new felony charges, the Alameda County district attorney’s office said Wednesday.

Kevin Lee Payne Jr., 21, was charged this week with vehicular manslaughter, reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident in connection with the April 10 hit-and-run crash on a busy Fruitvale street, according to documents released by the district’s attorney office.

The district attorney also charged Payne with special allegations of causing bodily injury to the woman and two minors inside the struck vehicle, according to court documents.

Just after 9 p.m. on April 10, Oakland police responded to the intersection of 35th and Paxton avenues and learned that a southbound Infiniti SUV struck a Toyota Corolla making a U-turn attempting to go southbound on 35th.

The impact caused both vehicles to hit parked vehicles, and the driver and other occupants of the SUV ran away before police arrived.

The Toyota’s driver was taken to a hospital in critical but stable condition, while two of the children, 8- and 10-year-olds, were in stable condition.

The third child, Zayda Monge, 9, died from her injuries April 11. A YouCaring account set up to help Zayda’s family with financial issues has raised $18,403 toward a $25,000 goal as of 7 p.m. Wednesday.

According to a document obtained Wednesday, video evidence that captured the collision showed that the Infiniti “was being operated at a high rate of speed within a residential zone” and that witnesses saw it “passing another vehicle by going into on-coming traffic prior to the collision.”

In that document, Oakland police Officer Timothy De La Vega said Payne said he understood his Miranda rights before admitting to being the driver in the collision and fleeing the scene. De La Vega said Payne “also wrote
a note confessing to the incident and was apologetic to what had occurred.”

Payne was previously convicted of receiving stolen property in December 2014, possession of an assault weapon in December 2015 and October 2016, and second-degree burglary in October 2016.

Payne is scheduled to appear at a plea hearing April 23 at Oakland’s Rene C. Davidson courthouse, according to county records.

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